skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that it could turn into a large music-oriented social network (a next-gen MySpace) or some kind of scalable annotation platform could make this not insane. Big opportunity + big risk = perfect YC/AH investment.

I have a feeling that the SEO battle for their keywords is about to get a lot more fierce though. I doubt they've solidified their spot in Google yet, so any tweak on Google's part or a blackhat SEO could seriously set them back.
No one here has attended a wedding or bar mitzvah? That silly dance is far from dead, which is not all that important depending on your social set but does give some doubt on the analysis.
Thirded. It seems to be more aggressive about shaving time of your trip than Google Maps.
I think everyone knows that there's only one correct answer and that's phase cancellation because the dry vocal track is typically dead center in the mix.

Here it happens because when the earphones' ground connection is disconnected from the source, the earpiece drivers remain connected to the L and R hot signals and their former common grounding point floats and leaves them in-series. This means that any signal present equally on L and R results in no current through the transducers. You hear only the difference signal in both ears, although to be precise, one is actually opposite in polarity.
Has anyone used this before?
Great tip.

For others, in Firefox, under OSX:

Tools -> Web Developer -> Inspect

Then hold down option, select the box, then click on the downarrow "delete node" and the box will disappear.
That still stems from the same problem, I think. If any lyric site became sufficiently comprehensive and widespread, it would get legal threats and end up dead. I occasionally want to look up some lyrics; I do a search, and end up with some results. If any of the sites I reached looked remotely reputable, I might remember it for the next time. None of them ever do.
IE 10 not supported? Lame.
I've also seen it with RabbitMQ persisting a lot of messages that needed to be queued up
Been looking for ~7" tablet as reading device. 7.2-8" diagonal is about size of regular book printed on A5 (two pages on A4 as booklet) which I find good balance between portability and readability. Nexus 7 is almost perfect fit but has major issue(at least from what I've seen) - pdf rendering is very rough making reading/navigating books experience inconvenient. Hopefully rumored ipad mini would be better candidate, one worry though is no "retina"/high resolution which imo would be major drawback.

Anyone could share experience of reading technical books/sci papers on nexus7?
Reading that site is like the way I imagine having cataracts must be.

Please, more contrast between text and background. It's like reading through a haze.
I think that part of the reason why working with your friends and family gets a bad name, is that when it goes wrong, it goes spectacularly wrong. So even if it might be successful a decent percentage of the time, the fear of that cataclysmic blow up prevents people from taking the plunge.

I think that using some of the techniques outlined in the article certainly mitigate that risk.
There is, to a first approximation, no atmosphere on Mars. To a slightly better approximation, there is an atmosphere on Mars, but only enough to cause trouble, not enough to actually be useful for anything.
those were very clever people who understand behavioral economics
Visited the website, I really don't see any indication of what the product is.

Your about page says:

"We wanted to make a tool that helps you promote your work online. Something that doesn't waste your time. No bells and whistles, just practical, robust and beautiful."

You built something? What exactly did you build?

Your homepage describes a profile.. what's a profile?

Only after I clicked around a lot did I finally look at the featured work, and saw an idea of what you're selling.

Without that the rest of the site doesn't really convey a strong idea of what you're actually trying to offer someone.
Open source it now, before the employer tries to stake a claim, and the employer will have a hell of a time trying to rein it in.

But I agree, getting your employer to sign something is the best bet. Even getting it in an email is better than just verbally.
Or, indeed, that they wouldn't be linked to the traffic light system in the first place.
In all of these cases, Apple was introducing a retina display into an existing product; it served as a differentiator and reason to upgrade from a previous version.

In addition, I'm unsure whether current 7" competitors (Kindle, Nook, Galaxy) have a display so much better than Apple's non-retina display that Apple would need to start out with a retina display just to stay level.
Or pay a small $10k+ fee if you want to do one of these common things:

* Your site is only available to paying customers.

* Your site is only accessible within your company or on your intranet.

* Your application relates to enterprise dispatch, fleet management, business asset tracking, or similar applications.
Ask HN: Selling my profitable side business. Interest/Advice?
Hi HN! Posting this for a friend to keep his identity private. He'll respond through my account, and wrote all the text below:

Hello HN! For 5 years, I've ran a highly profitable side business. While the business requires very minimal maintenance, I'd like to focus my attention on other ventures. The site continues to provide a fantastic income, but the obligation to maintain it still exists in my head, and I'm ready to release myself of that obligation. I've never sold a business and I've been a longtime HN user and contributor, so I'm hoping that the community here can provide me with advice or even a buyer.

This sale represents a huge learning opportunity plus some financial security. By purchasing this business, you'll gain access to a production-quality website that has been profitable for half a decade. You'll gain the foundation to massively grow this into a much larger business, and you'll already have a customer base that loves and believes in the product. So whether you're an experienced entrepreneur looking for something new, a new entrepreneur looking to have a solid start, or just someone looking for some fantastic side income, this post should interest you.

Below are the financials, maintenance, and tech information about the business. I'm going to keep the product itself private except to interested buyers.

# The Numbers

Users: 5522

Revenue (last 12 months): $76,201

Expenses (last 12 months): $2,521

Maintenance:

* During peak periods, there are ~2 support emails sent per day.
* Technical maintenance is sometimes required, average 4 to 8 hours per business quarter.

Technology:

* Python
* Tornado
* PostgreSQL
* AWS for hosting
* Twilio
* PayPal

Thanks! If you're seriously interested, please email me at hnbusinessinterest@gmail.com and I can give a more detailed rundown of the entire product, revenue numbers, etc.
Most libertarians I know are fully aware that they can't stop the government from debasing money and devaluing savings anytime soon.
I don't know if I agree with everything here.. is the goal to capture emails/signups, or to get users that will use your product and provide meaningful feedback?

I know it's a chicken and egg problem, you want a large enough sample base to get users using the product but with vague messaging you are attracting people that wont use your product (people that you shouldn't target) and people that WILL use your product but don't understand the vague messaging. I would suggest taking all versions of the page and signup methods to test usability of the product. Optimizing on the initial signup is great, but if your users don't use the product after they signup bc it's so vague.. then you've just wasted all that optimization effort. Unless the goal is to create a huge list of signups.

Also, where is traffic coming from? Paid, organic search, social media, press release, tc, etc? That has a huge difference on your results. And what tools are you using to run the tests and what is the sample size? I think readers would love to hear those tidbits too

Thanks for sharing your findings.. good luck =)
I'm getting a 'Error 503 Service Unavailable'
Could they not simply be rocky outcrops that are covered and uncovered by seasonal sandstorms?
Netbot is causing quite a stir at app.net. Here's a word cloud of the past hour's global timeline:

http://adn.loqix.com/appwords.17:00-03.10.2012.png
The last thing I want is my email address in the hands of every author of every book I've ever bought. Amazon has it right. They can notify me if there's an "important" update (hard to imagine for most books); if not, leave me alone.
- Startup name: *ify

- Social network related (bonus point for naming facebook in headline)

- Heavy use of eye candy

- Reference to old thing (does anybody still puts photos in showboxes?)

Startup hipster status: Confirmed.

/joking

It looks nice but I really do not understand the use of this... If my pictures are already on facebook..why wuold I want to put them on here? They would still be on facebook so... I do not understand what problem does this solve? you say that the pictures are buried by noise...but..there are albums, there is a section just to see the photos.. I am a missing something here?
Really, does nobody else read the logo as "rapegenius"?

Honestly not being crude or puerile here - I choked on tea when I saw it...

A tiny little bit of spacing between the words would go a long way here I feel.
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I like to point out that Google has higher revenues per employee than Goldman Sachs, but a mid-level banker at GS makes several times as much money as a mid-level engineer at Google.
> Ph.D. is generally a different story, so let's save that for a different time

Can you explain this in more detail?

Also, hkmurakami said in his reply to you that "A PhD also makes it more difficult to find a job." Why would that be?
I think a latex balloon filled with hydrogen could achieve positive buoyancy. Just bring a little bit of water and you can make your own hydrogen.
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From what I read, there's a big concern about contaminating Mars with Earth-based bacterium. To ensure the drill would be useful after landing, they pre-set one of the drill bits. By doing that, they broke the sanitized enclosure, and there may be contaminants present that survived the trip. They are supposedly avoiding signs of life with Curiosity.
If you have a CD player (last century tech) that had a karaoke button that's what happens when you press that button, the two channels are merged.
I can honestly say that I hope developers do avoid the app store.
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Interesting, a quick glance at a paper on SVRs indicate they kind of work in the opposite manner of a SVM - in an SVM you try to maximize the number of points far away from the separator (taking into account class), whereas in regression you are trying to minimize this.

Do you have much background using them? I'm curious how they perform on real-world tasks.
If that were the case, they would cast shadows.
"The arbitor is ecnomically pressured to side with the company, because siding against the company is likely not to result in repeat business."

Arbitrators are typically agreed upon by attorney's of both sides or specified by a neutral higher authority (judge etc.)
I love the Super Bowl picture but I wonder how many remember the outcome of that play (was not good)
As an American citizen working in Canada I have the same problem on the other side of the fence. My work permit is tied to my Canadian employer and it is not possible for me to get a work permit as a self employed worker or an entrepreneur.

From what I understand this is a fairly universal problem with immigration policy. Most developed countries are unwilling hand over work permits for hopes and dreams. I wish there was a way around this but as far as I know you cannot start a company without permanent residency.
When I read

> Our payment platform requires that clients use escrow for guaranteed timely payment.

it makes me think that matchist takes a %-based cut. If this is the case then I want nothing to do with them. And if this is not the case then they should really re-work their copy to avoid setting off alarm bells in potential customer's heads.
That was a really interesting post, thanks.

Anecdotally, how would you characterize the distribution of risk aversion of the younger folks? (ie, engineers vs hard sciences vs social sciences vs business, humanities etc.)

Or rather, is it evenly distributed across the culture?
Toyota's current CEO is a descendant of the founder of the company. Dynastic family members are dispersed throughout the "group companies". I wonder how much of such behavior would be tolerated in the west. (then again, James Murdoch is pretty high in News Corp so who knows).
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It's hard to measure since we've seen engagement levels consistently rise over the past month, but we've also been doing a lot of OTHER work to increase engagement and bring people back to the site. For instance we've been driving community/discussions around specific teams on the site, sending out email notifications/newsletters, FB notifications etc, optimizing FB open graph- all of which have been pretty effective for engagement. It's still unclear whether there is a direct correlation between clarity on the landing page and longer-term engagement.
Vin Diesel is definitely balding. You can see it very clearly in xXx.
"We make a little of the money back back that we are losing from the blocker."

Bullshit. No way their average ad revenue per user is > 5 USD/year. Especially since OKC has a large non-US audience.
This is such a trip! It kind of pisses me off that I'll die long before we gain a thorough understanding of this kind of stuff.
Yes, I focused on getting an excellent user experience and to make my life easier in this pre-release version focus on getting it right for Chrome, Safari and Firefox.

Check it out with a compatible browser I hope you can appreciate the polish. I wanted no compromise
PS: it also doesn't work on Android for same reason
Mansfield stayed at Apple after Cook offered him 'exorbitant' $2M-per-month
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This is cool. What live code editor is that?
"Surely I'm not the only one thinking spiceblows..."

-- a commenter on that page, Melissa Swanson
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Great news to see a UK company tackle the issue of copyright transfer in Europe. We launched Kunvay earlier this summer in the US as the first startup to tackle this exact problem. We hope more and more people learn more about how to safely navigate IP at work and in their everyday lives.
"How are employment contracts for 6-figure jobs "under duress"? KPCB isn't obliged to hire anyone."

In "entitledville" they are duress.
What about $3/mo? They just introduced a $36/year plan.
Your perception and inference are both wrong. App.net isn't just going up against twitter, but rather the entire social networking paradigm where I have multiple signups and not enough use. If we use app.net to login to most major services and post, like I have to do with twitter, facebook and linkedin right now, I get away with a single login.

What'll drive adoption? The developer incentive program. This also answers your John Deere example... There will be a lot of offsprings from App.net. In a rudimentary tone - a fb-clone, an instagram clone, comments systems (bit.ly/qbdebut)etc...
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Every startup requires some level of the Jobsian RDF to exist around the founders and extend to the core team. The problem is that, for most startups, the RDF will be threatened by real-world events (nobody is using/buying/investing-in your product) and once the RDF is gone, it's very hard to keep going. That's when morale suffers. That's when founders leave. Startups die the same way because the begin the same way (and rightfully so): with a passion about an idea that doesn't necessarily conform to reality.
Slashdot was the original (and nerdier) reddit.

I just wish there was a way to find out when my slashdot account was created!
I'd be curious to hear about how you onboard new users - from all appearances, the vagueness/single page sort of force people to register if they want to learn about the product. What kind of onboarding or lifecycle setup have you implemented - and any preliminary stats you can share?
Well, neither http://www.apple.com/de/pro/profiles/otto/ nor the AIFF file exist anymore … maybe you need to be a native speaker of German to see the issue here although it's certainly not a controversy but mainly a funny occurrence.
Why not just mark photos on Facebook as private? Is it not possible to mark single photos in albums as private?

We could download our history including our photos from Facebook and put them on Dropbox.
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I did a bit of research, the largest website for lyrics is metrolyrics.com, they are owned by CBS (as of October 2011) and they license all their lyrics through a company called Gracenote (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracenote) it's plausible that Rapgenius are also licensing through this company, or similar? Seems there is a way for a lyric website to exist legitimately.
Wow, that's a nice margin. So...obvious question: adult business?
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No need to wait 'til "someday". Here at the Times, we're looking for a few folks to join the Interactive News team: http://jobs.nytco.com/job/New-York-Interactive-News-Develope...
It's 50c per 1000 requests. So if you were building a semi-popular website or iPhone app with 10K requests/day it would be $150 a month. In what bizarro world is that mostly free ?
People can post from Netbot to both twitter and App.net. Twitter's TOS doesn't allow the twitter app to post to anything else...
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This would've been good when I was just starting with RSpec. A couple things I'd like to add:

Mock or not to Mock

Mock and stub relentlessly. Ensure that the object you're testing the behavior of sends the right messages to its collaborators but put the tests for those messages in the unit test for the collaborator. This keeps your tests isolated and fast. As long as you adhere to "Tell, Don't Ask" you should simply be able to assert that your method is sending messages to other objects without relying on the behavior that those methods perform.

Create only the data you need

describe "User"
describe ".top" do
before { 3.times { Factory(:user) } }
it { User.top(2).should have(2).item }
end
end

The author advocates not creating dozens of objects but why make any at all? This seems like a place where setting expectations is a better course of action. There's no reason to test ActiveRecord query methods like this - just assert that the filters that you want are being set by the method and call it. I usually do something like this (using rspec-mocks):

subject.should_receive(:popular).and_return(subject)
subject.should_receive(:by_create_date).and_return(subject)
...

This lets you know that the class method is performing the filtering you want without actually fetching data from the db. Much like validations, this is the kind of thing you can rely on either the Rails team or the db adapter writers to get the actual filtering right without having to test this over and over in your app. Having your unit tests (business logic!) actually hit your persistence layer like this is the kind of thing that makes test suites slow!
I know a very talented and widely respected Canadian developer who was offered a job at a well known company but turned down at the border based on this requirement. They make occasional exceptions but it is handled case-by-case and often depends on who reviews your file.
Right, because a middleman that finds work for you and handles making sure you get paid, taking your potentially risky freelance business and making it slightly more like a stable job deserves exactly zero of your precious money. I don't understand people sometimes.
Google didn't invent nor has a monopoly on autonomous driving cars. They are one of MANY players.

So pretty sure everyone else will be able to change every market out there as well.
How hard is it for foreigners (American, in my case) who aren't already in Japan to get into the Tokyo startup scene? I'm guessing you'd need a work visa, something startups would have a tough time providing.

I've studied Japanese and studied abroad in Japan, so I'd definitely like to return, but it seems to me that the easiest way to do that would be by getting a job at a big company like Rakuten.
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Netbot client stats on ADN - http://appnetizens.com/clientstats

44% (and growing) of ADN traffic is coming from that $5 app.
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According to the friendly person on the website's chat, it's a 10% cut of your payment.
I talked about Twitter specifically because the OP talked about Twitter specifically.

I don't doubt that there will be lots of offsprings from app.net, I'm just dubious about whether they'll gain any traction. "You only have to use one username/password!" isn't enough to get people to spend $5 a month.
Depends on your point of view I suppose, all of Mars is dangerous (100% lethal!) if you're a human.
I wouldn't be worried about the effect on the business so much as the effect on the personal relationships. I'm sure working with friends and family is no worse for the business, and in many cases better, for the business.

If your life is your business, fine, but I would hate for my working life to invade my personal life to such a degree.
I like Waze for when I drive because it gives you pretty accurate traffic and police reports. Of course this is all socialized so if you live in a less populated area these features become less useful.